It appears that the Las Vegas Police Protective Association still
hasn’t learned that you are not supposed to use police department
taxpayer email service to promote political candidates and “suggest”
to police department personnel that they should support a certain
political candidate.
On Oct 24, 2013, a flyer promoting and supporting Sheriff Candidate
Captain Larry Burns was distributed to police personnel throughout the
police department, describing a “kick-off party” for the captain,
Larry Burns.
This flyer sends a distinct political message to all in several
different ways. (1) This email flyer implies that “all members” of the
police union are in support of this particular candidate. (2) This
email flyer implies that Sheriff Douglas Gillespie supports and is
backing Captain Larry Burns to succeed him to the throne of Metro. (3)
This condoned and tolerated email flyer suggests that it is okay to
use police department taxpayer email service, including the personal
email contacts with its employees, to “suggest” to everyone which
candidate to support, along with the underlying bullying tactics that
are specifically reserved for the “special people.”
In 2010, previous election law violations were complained about by
former and current Sheriff Candidate Detective Gordon Martines,
whereby he filed an “Ethics Law violation complaint” against incumbent
Sheriff Douglas Gillespie, for the exact same election law violation,
using police department taxpayer email service to promote his
re-election. This particular complaint was ignored by the Ethics
Commission, and never even addressed or ruled upon, even though the
Commission had sent a special investigator, Mike Vavra, to examine and
verify the complaint. This later investigation was found to be a
stalling tactic and just another corrupted maneuver to get their
chosen candidate into office, without too much mud.
Sadly, this email flyer strongly suggests that Capt. Larry Burns is
now kissing the dragging robes of Sheriff Gillespie and has partaken
of the “Kool-Aid,” which will continue the criminal organization
tactics and corruption that has thrown the LVMPD into its decaying
abyss.
The Las Vegas Tribune contacted Sheriff Candidate Gordon Martines to
hear what his opinion was, so far, regarding these kinds of tactics.
Det. Martines said, “I am heartily crushed, but not really surprised,
that my beloved LVPPA would endorse a political candidate that is also
running for sheriff without even mentioning the other candidates
involved to the members of the union — which would be the right thing
to do. I am not even sure that Captain Larry Burns is even a member of
the LVPPA, as supervisors are generally members of their own police
union (PMSA). I guess maybe it is true that the Sheriff literally owns
both unions anyway and pretty much dictates what they do. It is not
surprising because that is what happened in 2006 and 2010, and is now
going into the 2014 Sheriff’s race.”
Detective Martines further stated that the 2014 Sheriff’s race is
going to be a little more competitive and a little more complex this
time. Some of the current sheriff candidates and current high-ranking
police officers are going to be spending some of their time criminally
defending themselves against allegations of Conspiracy to Commit
Murder (4 counts) that occurred in 1996, 2001, 2007 and 2010, along
with several Federal Complaints submitted in January of 2011, for
Discrimination (Ethnic and Age), Unlawful Termination, Threats to
Life, Destruction of Official Documents and Evidence, First Amendment
Violation, Theft, Obstructing Justice, Perjury, etc, etc. (See Federal
Complaint; Gordon Martines vs Sheriff Douglas Gillespie, et al, and 14
other defendants.)
Detective Martines closed by saying, “The people of this community,
which includes my home, deserve the right to be properly represented
and to have their rights protected, equally and fairly, by the Law
Enforcement Agency created to do so. There is a great deal of house
cleaning that needs to be done, starting with the entire police
administration and then working downward to get rid of the corrupted
trash.
“If I am elected sheriff, I vow to make that happen and clean it out,
along with the requirement of every police officer to carry a
pocket-sized book of the United States Constitution and Bill of
Rights, and an additional copy template of the Law Enforcement Code of
Ethics.”
The Las Vegas Tribune is acutely aware of, and has the evidence
backing up that which Detective Martines is speaking about, with
regard to the four murders, whereby LVMPD personnel is complicit in
its commission and cover-up.
This newspaper is the only newspaper that has published this
information repeatedly, and will continue to publish this information
until this ungodly den of corruption in the police department is
finally cleaned out.
As always, the Las Vegas Tribune is the only newspaper that
publishesThe Truth — no omissions, no lies, no disinformation and no
half-truths.

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